100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA, 16346 · (814) 676-7600
Beds
138
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$164.5M
FY 2025
Net income
-$7.0M
Patient care margin -9.0%
Discharges
5,295
Occupancy 52.3%
Clinicians
348
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $164.5M | $179.4M | -9.0% | -$7.0M | 5,295 | $2.9M | 16.8% | 1.7% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for COPD patients | 8.7% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 12.5% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 8.5% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.9% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 13.5% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 11.4% | US median 11.6% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $146.6M | $171.2M | -16.8% | -$23.2M | 4,557 | $2.5M | 21.8% | 3.7% |
| 2023 | $136.6M | $165.4M | -21.1% | -$24.7M | 4,448 | $2.1M | 25.5% | 3.8% |
| 2022 | $132.4M | $153.1M | -15.6% | -$16.6M | 4,089 | $1.8M | 32.5% | 4.1% |
| 2021 | $126.4M | $134.9M | -6.7% | -$3.0M | 4,080 | $1.9M | 35.3% | 5.5% |
| 2020 | $117.8M | $130.0M | -10.3% | -$5.7M | 4,100 | $2.7M | 39.5% | 5.9% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.5% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 15.6% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 24.5% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5.6% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 19.4% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 3.8% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.95 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.44 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.90 | US median 0.48 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.69 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.36 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 77% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 81% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 46% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 69% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 76% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 62% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 1% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 136 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 15% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 68% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 90% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 38% | US median 74% |
| 44 |
| $41,918.27 |
| $8,172.18 |
| $9,867.73 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 36 | $42,440.78 | $9,804.61 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 31 | $19,464.13 | $4,434.61 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 30 | $22,707.03 | $4,942.77 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 194 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH CC | 25 | $25,049.52 | $4,493.60 | $5,880.23 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 23 | $32,789.48 | $7,614.57 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 21 | $20,158.57 | $4,335.76 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 309 CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA AND CONDUCTION DISORDERS WITH CC | 19 | $24,677.58 | $4,387.32 | $5,247.13 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 18 | $25,887.72 | $5,790.39 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 178 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH CC | 18 | $29,276.78 | $6,134.94 | $7,278.86 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 16 | $22,118.25 | $4,332.06 | $5,829.71 |
| DRG 885 PSYCHOSES | 16 | $46,444.69 | $8,165.00 | $11,869.17 |
| DRG 682 RENAL FAILURE WITH MCC | 16 | $32,156.19 | $8,806.25 | $11,457.18 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 109 | 102 | $1,444.33 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 93 | 90 | $1,862.07 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 83 | 65 | $2,400.53 | $2,629.24 |
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 76 | 66 | $482.03 | $502.15 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 47 | 46 | $1,153.75 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 47 | 44 | $3,603.86 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 42 | 26 | $1,658.35 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | 37 | 35 | $1,371.13 | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 26 | 26 | $2,268.29 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 21 | 21 | $10,107.90 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 21 | 20 | $2,022.07 | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5182 Level 2 Vascular Procedures | 19 | 19 | $1,139.69 | $1,204.32 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
| Company | Payments | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare BAX | 1 | $152 |
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
UPMC Northwest is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Seneca, PA with 138 beds, part of UPMC and a 4-star overall rating.
UPMC Northwest in Seneca, PA has 138 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 90 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 5,295 inpatients that year, with 52.3% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), UPMC Northwest reported net patient revenue of $164.5M and operating expenses of $179.4M, a margin on patient care of -9.0%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$7.0M (-4.0% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
UPMC Northwest is part of UPMC, a health system with 29 hospitals based in Pittsburgh, PA. It is a nonprofit hospital.
UPMC Northwest has an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 1 death rate measures are better and 0 worse than the national rate.
Yes, UPMC Northwest provides emergency services.
348 Medicare clinicians list UPMC Northwest as a hospital they work at, most often in Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Nurse Practitioner.
In 2024, UPMC Northwest had 552 Medicare inpatient stays in 22 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 291 (heart failure and shock with mcc) with 79 stays; Medicare paid $7,877.89 per stay on average, compared with $10,022.34 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $152 in payments to UPMC Northwest as a teaching hospital ($152 general and - for research) from 1 companies.